APM: Was there a meeting last night?

[tmcd at panix.com]

On Thu, 12 Feb 2009, Tim McDaniel <tmcd at panix.com> wrote:
> One topic that recently occurred to me: Perl Peeves.  Recently I
> learned how -r, -w, and -x are broken by design on any systems with
> ACLs (like, say, Windows).  I've run across a few other gotchas
> (unary +, unary -, true&false&relational operators), but I could
> rant^H^H^H^H talk about them maybe 5-10 minutes at most.
>
> So my proposal: is there something about Perl that you frequently
> forget about and it always bites you on the butt? Do you always have
> to do some workaround that just makes your teeth itch in irritation?

After further thought: Weird Perl.  Including peeves, as above, but
also plain strange things (maybe useful, maybe not), unusual idioms,
and such.  Maybe that would be more interesting?

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Tim McDaniel; Reply-To: tmcd at panix.com